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Chet or Biff: What We Can Politically Learn From The Biggest Dirtbags in 80s Teen Movies?

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, we join longtime, award-winning Hollywood Makeup artist Spring Super to discuss teen film villains in the 1980s and how they affect our politics! 


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I'm Dave Ziron here to speak to you this week about a topic we don't usually talk about on this podcast where sports and politics come together.

1:20.9

But I think something that we're all wrestling with right now is what it means to have this government by bros in office that we're going to be

1:32.7

facing like these right wing reactionary white dudes and where does all where's this archetype come from

1:41.7

that somehow this is an okay thing to be and it all clicked with me

1:46.4

that we can best understand the mentality of these fascist barbarians marching into the white house

1:54.0

by understanding the 1980s film douche.

2:01.7

If you are a villain

2:04.4

in a 1980s movie,

2:07.3

then guess what?

2:09.0

You are probably the archetype

2:11.7

of the most catastrophic

2:14.3

right-wing eradication of bourgeois democratic norms in the history of the

2:22.6

Republic, or at least since Andrew Johnson.

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